The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-08
Attend to Your Horses.

dictates sore throat, or swelling of the
glands of the neck. 1t is one of the
symptoms of dstemper, which is pre-
valent at this season. Give the horse
a warm bran mash, with one drachm
Of chlorate of potash in it, daily. for
week or ten days. There is nothing
serious to be apprehended.
For a horse which is weak in the
knees rub the limbs briskly with Il
wooden cloth. then battle with salt and
water, wipe dry, and apply a mixture
Of one pint of alcohol and one drachm
Of tincture of Spanish ny, rubbing in a
tablespoonful twice a day with the
hand. Let the horse run in loose
stall. deeply Uttered with sawdust or
dry swamp muck, or on an earth floor.
Skuuks oil, beef brine and other trash
Of the kind are useless.
Piles are caused by dialatation of the
blood vessels of the lower gut or rec
lum and the formation of tumors In
juniors on the lining membrane are
often COMPOUNDED with them. The
treatment is as follows: Give daily
three ounces of Glauber salts and COM
mon salt; bran and linseed mashes.
with one drachm each of sulphate of
iron and ground gentian root If the
piles appear outwardly or there is much
irritation, and the horse rubs the tail,
inject one ounce of solution of a
drachm of sugar of lead in a pint of
water.
A horse can be fed on grain and bran
If he is not overfed. These foods are
concentrated. and need to be given
with caution Cottonseed meal, if quite
free from lint, may be given in modera-
ton. Some coarse fodder is desirable,
if ii can be procured, and supply
should be grown either of mllet, corn
fodder or pea vines, and cut when in
blossom and cured for hay. If little
roughness is given six pounds of bran
and the same of some kind of grain,
and two pounds of whole clean cotton
seed, would make sufficient food for
1000 pound horscl Five pounds of hay
daily given with this grain would be
quite sufficient.
Green food in the summer is often
the cause of serious indigestion, with
rs common results-colic and rupture
of the stomach, which is inevitably
fatal. Such food should never be given
wet, or heated b. fermentation after
cutting, or in excessive quantity, nor
when horse is weary. Clover or rye
before the heat of the day. and spread
in the shade to wilt until the next day.
A sprinkling of salt will tend to avoid
trouble with such food, as it prevents
fermentation.
Water should always be given before
feeding, and never immed lately after
ward. Collie is often produced by CO.
pious watering soon after eating and
also by watering when the animal is
hot and weary from work. The
stomach being chilled is for the time
incapable of digesting any food. Light
feeding is to be given during hard or
rapid work, and the full feed is only
given after sufficient rest. Overfeed-
ing is to be especially avo ded, and
regularity is very important One
twelve-quart pailful of cut hay and four
pounds of meal is full feed for 1000
pound horse, given twice II day, with
an equivalent feeding between of oats
or corn and long hay. Orchard grass
hay, cut just at the blossoming, is ex-
cellent for horses. Ripe timothy is the
next best and corn blades, pulled
green and well cured make AS good
feed rs any. Dusty or mouldy food is
to be specially avoided, not only for its
effect upon the digestive organs, but fer
its evil results upon the respiratory
functions. Idleness is conducive to in
digestion, and during the present
season particularly horses should be
turned out several hours for exercise
every day.
The shrinkage of the muscles of the
shoulder, and which is commonly call
ed sweeney" is due to some lameness
Of the foot or limb, which induces the
horse to favor the shoulder and throw
the muscles out of use. This inaction
causes the muscles to decrease in sub
stance, and the shoulder fattens or be-
comes followed. The remedy for this